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Offline force effect rendering

EP 0875819 B1 · Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION

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  • Filed February 13, 1998 and granted October 2, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 13, 2018.
  • A supplementary protection certificate, which can extend a medicine or crop-protection patent, adds at most five and a half years, so even that would have ended by August 13, 2023.
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FiledFebruary 13, 1998
PublishedNovember 4, 1998
GrantedOctober 2, 2002
Term endedFebruary 13, 2018
Application numberEP 98301055
Classification (CPC)G06F3/016 +1 more

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